How to build your brand trust through customer review?

If you think your brand is really good, let customers and users of your products do the judging part. Customer review and customer rating plays an important role. For examples websites like: Tripadvisor.com for travel and Practo.com for medical professionals are reviewed by its users. By doing this, brands get to be more authentic and trustworthy to its user base.

In this information sharing age, transparency plays an important role. Biased information can neither capture your audience attention nor help in customer retention. Audience will pay attention to only those things they want to hear and read about. They need stories that are authentic and consumers want to be a part of that story.

Most commonly, testimonials, customer reviews, recommendations and customer experiences are used in services like Ecommerce, hospitality, travel and other such portals where the customer wants to listen to other customers before making his or her own decisions. A manipulated review may help you initially, but eventually end users will know the truth. So let your customers do the talking. If all the reviews are taken positively, it will help you build a better service or product that will have wider acceptance. Today, the number of online consumers who read and trust online reviews is increasing. According to several surveys by Bright local, Capterra, Softwareadvice, Thismoment, webrepublic, here are some of the interesting findings:

88% of consumers say that they trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations.

Consumer reviews are significantly more trusted, nearly 12 times more than descriptions that come from manufacturers

Customers spend31% more with a business that has “excellent” reviews

Buyers consult reviews early in the search, with68% reading reviews as they build their shortlist

40% of buyers form an opinion of a business after reading just 1-3 reviews

97% of B2B buyers said that user generated content, like user reviews, is more crediblethan other types of content

52% of buyers say they trust a product more if they have a few negative reviewsof their product

78% of buyers who read reviews were satisfied with their final purchase

64% of software buyers want to read at least 6 reviewsbefore making a purchase decision

89% of users will make a purchase within one week of reading reviews

72% of buyers will take actiononlyafter reading a positive review

50 or more reviews per product can mean a 6% increase in conversion rates

You can’t ignore the recommendations of customers and influences of strangers with opinions. Set up a process to invoke reviews to your product or services and experience the power of positive suggestions.